2013-09-17T12:35:51-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/amos/ http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/where-were-you-on-september-11-6958 2013-09-17T12:35:51-05:00 To be ready for eternity, to know you're going to heaven when you die, means to know that you have had every sin of your life - the sin that would keep any of us out of heaven - it has been erased from God's Book forever. Only one person can do that; the man who paid the penalty for it, Jesus, when He died on the cross. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-mission/the-illusion-of-winning-6434 2011-09-08T10:41:16-05:00 Am I, as one follower of Christ, sitting back and enjoying all of Zion's goodies and feeling like I'm doing something? Or am I daily entering into the battle for the lives of the people around me? Listen, we will celebrate when we get to heaven. That will be enough time. Right now it's time to reach the lost through every possible means while there's still time. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/a-precarious-planet-6399 2011-08-08T11:46:24-05:00 Every day on this planet, a "tsunami" called death sweeps 150,000 people into eternity ready or not. Since it happens with, you know, one heart attack here and one traffic accident there, we don't see it on the news like we do an attack of a killer wave. But it's real, it's relentless, and it's coming my way. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/the-audit-of-a-lifetime-6378 2011-06-22T12:19:04-05:00 The Auditor's told us how to take the dread out of the audit. It says, "If we judge ourselves, we would not come under judgment" (1 Corinthians 11:31). Face it now so you don't have to face it then. It's no wonder He's so deeply interested in how we live our life. He's pretty heavily invested with His blood. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/how-to-be-safe-in-dangerous-times-6224 2010-11-30T09:58:55-05:00 The coming of Jesus is scheduled, it's sure and it's "unpostponeable." Whether it's the moment He comes back to earth or the moment He comes for you. Don't risk not being ready. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-mission/daisy-chains-5965 2009-11-20T09:17:32-05:00 Sadly, too many of us are in that group sitting in the grass, doing nothing about those around us who are moving steadily toward an awful eternity. We're real busy making our daisy chains. Listen to God's warning in Amos 6:1, our word for today from the Word of God. "Woe to you who are complacent in Zion." Complacent in God's place; going to heaven but not caring much about those who aren't - making daisy chains. http://hutchcraft.com/a-life-that-matters/radio-program/death-of-a-star-8263 2009-09-16T11:57:16-05:00 During my first ski lesson, I fell down on the beginners' slope and I hurt the part of me that God designed for that purpose. Tragically, when actress Natasha Richardson fell on the bunny slope, she sustained a head injury that only hours later ended her life. It was an unlikely death; it was an untimely death. You know, five years ago, she said: "Every morning I wake up and think how lucky I am, probably because of fear, because it can all be gone in a moment." Well, it can for any of us. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/the-verdict-and-the-penalty-are-already-in-5917 2009-09-15T09:22:30-05:00 There's one verdict, and one sentence we don't have to wait for - yours and mine. The verdict and the penalty are already in. Not from a jury, but from the Judge. The Judge we must all face - God Himself. Deep down inside, we know that on the other side of our last heartbeat, which He decides by the way, we'll face our Creator. The Bible gives us a sobering warning about that: "Prepare to meet your God." http://hutchcraft.com/a-life-that-matters/radio-program/how-families-get-in-trouble-8251 2009-09-14T14:33:40-05:00 I’m Ron Hutchcraft and that is actually not the first time a big mess has resulted from the lack of communication. In fact, that’s how many families get in trouble, because the captain and the pilot aren’t communicating. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/ill-from-overeating-5826 2009-09-10T12:26:14-05:00 If your Christian life is mostly passive right now, it's no wonder you're spiritually bored and you're living in a false security that everything is OK. It's not. You're foundering...you're ill from overeating and under exercising. But today can be your day to get up, get busy, and start experiencing what it is to run in God's pasture, not just graze in God's pasture!